Auto Smasher

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The Auto Smasher is one of the three current Upgrades branching off of the Smasher and can be selected at Level 45. The Auto Smasher adds an Auto Turret on the middle of the body of the tank. It cannot upgrade further, as it is at the end of its upgrade line.

With the addition of an Auto Turret, this tank gains an entire new scope of strategy. By pouring any remaining points into the returning Bullet stats, you will become a formidable melee and ranged attacker.

However even though it may seem like “a jack-of-all-trades,” it is a master of none. Therefore you may choose to focus either on upgrading your Auto Turret (thus leaving your body slow and weak) or focus on the Smasher body itself (thus leaving your Auto Turret relatively weak).

It is recommended to focus mainly on the Smasher aspect of the tank, leaving the Auto Turret as a means of defense if you're in a tight situation and need to escape. It can also be used as a radar to alert the player of enemies out of their Field of View.

Other than this, any strategies for the Smasher apply to the Auto Smasher as well. Avoid Traps, Bullet spammers, and Drone tanks.

Attack cornered and unaware tanks - though with the Auto Turret giving away your location, sneaking up and catching them off-guard will be more difficult; for sneaky tactics, it's better to use the Landmine. Follow where your Auto Turret aims. If it turns up a tank, kill the tank if it is somewhat easy.

Your Auto Turret can expose invisible tanks such as Landmines or ram Stalkers so that they have nowhere to hide.

Like other tanks in the Smasher branch, players want to become aware of the Auto Smasher before it becomes aware of the player, as most of the time they are fast and extremely hard hitting.

If you're a slow tank, like a Ranger, avoiding the Auto Smasher will be even more difficult with its Auto Turret bearing down on you from afar.

If you are using Drones, keep them close to you and keep away until you see an opportunity to attack. Straight-up ramming the Auto Smasher will also be more difficult unless you manage to avoid its Bullets, but even so, this is inadvisable because the Auto Smasher may have poured points into a rammer build of its own. But if the Auto Smasher focused points into a Bullet build instead, rammers become a better option; if its gun is focused on other enemies, the rammer gets a perfect opportunity. But you must determine what kind of build the Auto Smasher is using before going in for the kill. A Spike with full Body Damage and Max Health can easily take down both types.

A player using the Destroyer, Hybrid or Annihilator can cripple an Auto Smasher in two hits, and possibly one if the Auto Smasher is using a glass cannon build.

Bullet spammers, like Penta Shot and Triplet, also work well against the Auto Smasher, as it has little chance to retaliate, unless it has poured all of its stat points into a fast and piercing build; if that's the case, tanks with low Bullet Penetration, like Octo Tank, must steer clear.

The developer stated “I forgot I had added it, and I was pushing some hot fixes… And it sneaked in” on this Reddit post shortly after its release.

This tank has the largest max capacity of each stat: 10 points maximum for all Stats.

This may not be an intended feature, as it’s trying to buff the Auto Smasher to counter the weakness of the Auto Turret via bullet based stats’ capability, but resulting in it being greatly imbalanced: improving bullet based stats will result in having a lack in body based stats, extremely clear when compared to other non-Smasher Tanks; though even with maxed bullet stats, the bullets are still somewhat weak, in addition to the lack of accuracy of the turret.

On the mobile version, any tank branching off from the Smasher including itself once upgraded to, the bullet button would disappear. However, if one is to touch the button as if it is there, the minimap showing the direction of the player would still move despite the button being invisible.

Due to it being very difficult to use (few are familiar with the strategical and tactical capabilities of this tank), many consider it as the most useless upgrade in the game.